These Halloween Candy & Cocktail Pairings Are The Perfect Treats, No Tricks: Here Is What You Should Drink With Your Halloween Candy

Halloween is quickly approaching which means that sometime over the next few days, you are going to eat candy. What better way to spend October 31 than to pair your favorite Halloween candy with the best cocktail! So what drink goes best with all that candy? To celebrate Trick or Treat festivities this year we are shifting to libations involving port wine. Picture a fine wood port that pairs perfectly with chocolate and caramel desserts, a bottled vintage to go with Twizzlers and Skittles and even the ideal combination for Candy Corn. We have listed the best cocktails to pair with your favorite Halloween candy. Since the doorbell will not ring as often as years passed, take this time to sit back, grab a drink, and keep all the mini-Snickers to yourself. Happy Halloween!

Snickers x Port of Manhattan Cocktail

Ingredients:

1 oz Croft Reserve Tawny Port
2 oz rye whiskey
3 dashes Angostura bitters

Method:

Combine all the ingredients into a cocktail shaker and fill with ice. Shake and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a cherry.

Reese’s x Port -Groni Cocktail

Ingredients:

1 oz Croft Reserve Tawny Port
1 oz gin
1 oz Campari

Method:

Add all the ingredients to a rocks glass and fill with ice. Stir until cold and garnish with an orange half-wheel.

Reese’s x Port Coffee Cocktail

Ingredients:

2 oz Croft Reserve Tawny Port
2 oz Cold Brew Coffee
1 oz Irish Cream Liqueur

Method:

Add the Croft Reserve Tawny Port, cold brew coffee and Irish cream liqueur to a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake, then strain into a martini glass. Garnish with coffee beans.

Reese’s x Taylor Fladgate 10-Year-Old Tawny

This 10-year old Tawny involves ripe berry fruit with a delicate nuttiness with notes of chocolate, butterscotch and fine oak wood. It is smooth and silky on the palate and full of ripe fig, and jam flavors.

Dark Chocolate Kit Kats x Fonseca BIN27

Because of its rich fruity nose, crammed with pure blackberry and cassis, BIN 27 will pair well with candies like dark chocolate Kit Kats, Dark Chocolate Hershey’s and Dark Chocolate M&Ms.

Twizzlers X Taylor Fladgate Late Bottled Vintage

Late Bottled Vintage Ports are bottled after being aged in oak vats for 4-6 years. It highlights notes of fresh blackcurrant and strawberry aromas with subtle notes of licorice and spice. The rich yet balanced black fruit flavors will make a great combo with Twizzlers, and Skittles.

Candy Corn x Taylor Fladgate Chip Dry

The sweet creaminess of the Candy Corn combined with this rich but dry white wine is the ideal Halloween candy pairing. Involving notes of fresh fruit with mellow aromas, this crisp finish is a great balance with sugary candy.